German-born art historian Rudolf Wittkower (1901-1971) and interior designer Margot Wittkower, née Holzmann (1902-1995), were married in 1923. The couple, both Jewish, fled Nazi Germany in 1933 for London, as Rudolf Wittkower was a British citizen through his British-born father, Henry. There Rudolf joined the staff of the Warburg Institute and Margot designed apartment interiors and furniture, specializing in neo-Palladian architecture. This style of architecture eventually became her expertise. As Margot was also an Italian Renaissance and Baroque specialist, the couple collaborated on the publications Born under Saturn (1963) and The divine Michelangelo (1964)

Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty

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Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)

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